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To think a full English breakfast is too much on Christmas morning?

239 replies

user232398291 · 08/10/2018 14:22

I like my food, honestly I do, but I don't know how people eat a full English on Christmas morning.

You are having a big roast dinner for lunch which is unusual in itself.

How on earth are you supposed to put that away too?

Am I missing something here?

OP posts:
Ixnayonthehombre · 08/10/2018 20:49

We always had a huge full cooked breakfast with all the extras on Christmas morning. I love the suspense of it and not rushing to presents and as an adult it was one of the best bits of the day to be honest. We would then not eat (except chocolate) until Christmas dinner which we always had in the evening. Now with my kids we tend to have pancakes or pastries with bacon and fruit. Because no one really appreciates the extras of a full cooked breakfast in my house and bacon and eggs isn't a special breakfast as my OH has that most mornings. I do miss it.

Lokisglowstickofdestiny · 08/10/2018 20:56

I might have a bacon sandwich, but if I have a full English I can't eat until 7-8 in the evening, and it certainly wouldn't be anything as substantial as a roast.

user3493489 · 09/10/2018 09:33

Don't bother with breakfast really and Xmas Day is same as usual. If you're going to do one, why don't you do it on the morning of Boxing Day instead?

Now, I like that idea!

Methe · 09/10/2018 09:35

We normally just have bacons sandwiches. I couldn’t eat a massive breakfast and then a massive dinner and all the chocolate as well!

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 09/10/2018 09:36

Dh & the dc have a sausage sarnie (2 sausages each) I have a croissant, at about 8:30/9am. I do lunch for 1:30/2pm. For them a full english would be a bit much due to timings but I can why people do it if they're eating after 3pm-ish.

SoyDora · 09/10/2018 09:37

Most of the people who say ‘I couldn’t possibly eat that much food, this is what we do’ then go on to list far more food than I’d eat with my full English breakfast and evening meal on Christmas Day!

consuelapipkin · 09/10/2018 09:52

I like to leave room for goodies I wouldn't normally have. English breakfasts aren't festive enough for me on Christmas Day.

howabout · 09/10/2018 10:29

I thought similar Soy Grin

500 calories in a bagel, smoked salmon and cream cheese alone (I checked out of idle curiosity)

ginghamstarfish · 09/10/2018 10:41

Great idea OP! We should do that this year! We go to the PILs (at their invitation command) on Christmas Day, staying overnight, and have a nice, but TINY Christmas lunch at 1.30. Maybe one chocolate after that, with the box we've brought put safely away for another time, then during the afternoon MIL announces 'as we've all eaten so much we don't need anything else'. A fry-up before we go would be fab!

kaytee87 · 09/10/2018 10:42

We would either have a full Scottish or just bacon rolls around 8am then Christmas dinner at 4pm.

kaytee87 · 09/10/2018 10:43

Both DH and I cook, do dishwasher and toddler rangle/ look after guests.

kaytee87 · 09/10/2018 10:46

For me a full breakfast would be; 1 sausage, 1 bacon, 1 tatie scone, 1 fried egg & of course a can of Irn Bru Wink

MinaPaws · 09/10/2018 10:58

We have brunch of bagels, smoked salmon and scrambled egg with fresh berries and juice on the side. Then Christmas dinner at about 6pm.

MemoryOfSleep · 09/10/2018 11:47

Surely you miss watching the kids open their pressies if you've got kids and make a big breakfast?

SoyDora · 09/10/2018 11:49

No. Breakfast after presents.

lottiegarbanzo · 09/10/2018 12:09

Oh no. Stocking first thing. Then breakfast together (pastries, rolls etc), then 'tree presents' at a leisurely pace, with everyone gathered together.

kaytee87 · 09/10/2018 12:10

@MemoryOfSleep no, you either do presents or breakfast first. It takes all of 30 minutes tops to make a full breakfast and plate it up.

bananamonkey · 09/10/2018 12:54

Eggs Royale for breakfast - DH requested it for our first Christmas together and now its our tradition, plus Bucks Fizz ( although not for the toddler). Fairly easy to make and requires minimal fridge space/washing up (I buy fancy ready-made hollandaise Blush). Then dinner about 3pm.

Starlings27 · 09/10/2018 13:01

Memory, we do stockings upstairs, then presents downstairs, then breakfast. It really doesn't take long to do a fry up.

Aquilla · 09/10/2018 13:03

My mil insists on soup before Christmas Dinner - drives me up the wall!

Dontfeellikeamillenial · 09/10/2018 13:05

Lunch is around 3 after a refreshing walk on the moors.

Simple.

Gottagetmoving · 09/10/2018 13:09

My kids and their families sometimes have a big fry up on Christmas morning. I think they are greedy sods Grin

ItsAndTarts · 09/10/2018 13:18

Nothing to add other than to roffle at the usual sanctimonious 'eww bacon and sausage...I'd only ever feed Tarquin the finest hide of a virginal mountain goat washed down with the piss of a thousand nuns' type posts 😂

User5895750 · 09/10/2018 14:58

In my youth, I've partied so much on Christmas Eve that when I finally surfaced I'd be going straight into Christmas lunch. So no breakfast. Well, maybe Alka-Seltzer!

VeryFurryXmass · 09/10/2018 15:59

Hollow chocolate Santa from my stocking and it's time to open presents! Lunch comes later.